{"id":7264,"date":"2015-05-18T13:47:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T17:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=7264"},"modified":"2017-02-07T15:09:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T20:09:06","slug":"new-sustainability-course-puts-students-in-the-thick-of-of-stakeholder-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2015\/05\/18\/new-sustainability-course-puts-students-in-the-thick-of-of-stakeholder-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"New Sustainability Course Puts Students in the Thick of Stakeholder Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Course<\/a>If sustainability science is about reaching beyond the borders of academia into communities, then it follows that a class focused on the growing discipline might land a student in a group of fishermen concerned about their livelihoods.<\/p>\n

Students at 91¸£Àû and University of New Hampshire<\/a> taking the newly offered Sustainability Science and Stakeholder Engagement course this spring were asked to engage directly with stakeholders. And, reflecting sustainability\u2019s focus on urgent, real world issues, they went right into the thick of it. Working with shellfish harvesters in Frenchman\u2019s Bay, Emma Fox, found she was a valued member of the academic team collaborating with the fishermen on complex issues related to bacterial contamination and the closing of shellfish flats. But there was a lot more to it than that. For instance, there were tides.<\/p>\n

\u201cI learned a lot about partnership and stakeholder engagement; learned a lot about transparency and trust and different communication issues. Working the tides was one of the themes, like making sure meetings with shellfish harvesters\u00a0occur at mid-tide times,\u201d she said, noting the low and high tides are prime working times for groups of these stakeholders. \u201cPartnerships take time; they\u2019re difficult. So, you have to keep coming back and respecting the opinions of other people and listening.\u201d\u00a0 See more on this story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If sustainability science is about reaching beyond the borders of academia into communities, then it follows that a class focused on the growing discipline might land a student in a group of fishermen concerned about their livelihoods. Students at 91¸£Àû and University of New Hampshire taking the newly offered Sustainability Science and Stakeholder Engagement course […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11637,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions\/11637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}